This is the fourth Dizzy adventure, and the first that wasn’t created by the original developers, The Oliver Twins. This one introduces a health bar, you no longer die instantly when touching hazards. The coins from the previous games have been replaced by diamonds, and they restore some of your health when you collect them. Other than that this game is very similar to the previous one. Perhaps it is because of the hand-off to a new developer, maybe they didn’t feel like they could take any large risks. Maybe it’s just that the series had found its footing in the previous game and there were no major issues to fix like the snorkel in 2, or the backtracking in the original.
Stuff about Dizzy
This is the third adventure game in the Dizzy series, and one of my favourite games growing up. I loved the feel of this adventure, of exploring what felt like a huge world filled with dragons and trolls.
The second Dizzy adventure game is themed around Treasure Island. In this one you start on an island with hidden treasure everywhere, and must solve puzzles including giving several pieces of this treasure to a shopkeeper to obtain a boat which you can use to leave.
This is a game I played a lot as a child. I had several of the main Dizzy games on the spectrum, and loved every one of them. I played Wonderful Dizzy four years ago and ended up creating a screenshot walkthrough of the whole game. I won’t be doing that for the rest of the series. That was a lot of work and this site has become more about my thoughts on completion of things.
Wonderful Dizzy was released in 2020 for the ZX Spectrum. It is the eighth game in the Dizzy series, the first original one since Crystal Kingdom Dizzy in 1992. It’s based on the Wizard of Oz, and was made by The Oliver Twins.